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The holy city, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and…The holy citie, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and…
The holy city, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and the manner of their standing, are expounded : also, her length and breadth, together with the golden measuring-reed, explained, and the glory of all unfolded : as also, the numerousness of its inhabitants, and what the tree and water of life are, by which they are sustained / by John Bunyan ...The holy citie, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and the manner of their standing, are expounded : also, her length and breadth, together with the golden measuring-reed, explained, and the glory of all unfolded : as also, the numerousness of its inhabitants, and what the tree and water of life are, by which they are sustained / by John Bunyan ...
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1669
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thirdly, And why she is said to descend out of it from God.
First, For the word Heaven, in Scripture it is variously to be understood, but generally either materially or metaphorically: Now not materially here, but metaphorically; and so is generally, if not always, taken in this Book.
Now that it is not to be taken for the material Heavens where Christ in Person is: Consider,
That the descending of this City, • not the coming of glorified Saints with their Lord; because that even after the descending, yea, and building of this City, there shall be Sinners converted to God; but at the coming of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with his Saints, the door shall be shut; that is, the door of Grace, against all Unbelievers, Luk. 13. 25. Matth. 25. 10.